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Town of Milton
Board of Selectmen Special Meeting
Tuesday July 23, 2013
Milton Town Hall
Meeting Minutes
Members in attendance: Chairman Tom Gray, Bob Bridges, Mike Beaulieu, Elizabeth Dionne
Town Administrator and Kimberly Ladisheff Recording Clerk.
Public in attendance: Clarence Nason, Pat Smith, Gail Pennell, Jake Tetreault, Jeff Ward,
Heather Ahearn, Rod Stockman, Phil MacDonald.
Chairman Gray called the meeting to order at 4:03 pm.
Bid opening for the Main Street Road Improvements
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Glen Builders, Inc. $342,797.50
Jamco Excavators, LLC - $ 314,055.00
J.T.I. Site Development - $ 274,960.00
Nelson Companies - $ 287,520.00
SUR Construction, Inc. - $ 277,495.00
Brown Industrial Group - $ 278,420.00
John Lyman & Sons Construction - $ 248,990.00
DBU Construction, Inc. - $ 292,265.00
NE Earth Mechanics, Inc. - $ 339,880.00
Tom stated the engineering company is going to review and contact everyone and let them know
who gets the bid. Tom thanked everyone for coming.
There were no public comments.
Other business
Liz worked on ordinance for bridge jumping and she has updated the ordinance. She would like
the Board to make approval to go forward for public hearing. The Board wondered if they could
increase the fine of $50.00. Liz said she checked with Police Chief and Attorney Sessler and that
is the dollar amount.
MOTION: Bob motioned to set bridge jumping ordinance on agenda for a public hearing at the
August 5 meeting. Mike seconded. Motion passed 3-0.
MOTION: Bob motioned to approve and sign manifest. Mike seconded. Motion passed 3-0.
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Liz briefed the Board on Fire Chief’s training. Nick has requested permission to use money in
training line of budget for him and possibly Deputy Chief to go to training in Florida later this
year. This training is for Fire Department management for departments that are full time and call
which is exactly what this Town has. If he goes alone it will be approximately $1500 or up to
$2200 if he takes Deputy Chief. This includes air fare, conference, hotel, etc. Liz stated Nick is
leaving tomorrow for training in Baltimore and taking 3 people with him and they are driving.
This training is more for tactical training rather than management. Liz had talked to Selectman
Bridges about this who expressed concern on money being expended this year on training
because we are in a default budget. Tom and Mike also had the same concern. She stated he
does have the money in his budget. Tom asked what he would gain from the training in Florida
that he can’t get here. Nick explained the training in Florida is sponsored by IAFC which is
more specific to management of a small Fire Department whereas Baltimore is more broad
based.
There was a brief discussion by the Board and they all agreed they would like to see Nick hold
off this year.
Nick discussed the cardiac monitors. He stated when they got the new cardiac monitors the
department kept the oldest one because they weren’t being offered anything for it. Nick stated
Jarrod Wheeler has been working with a training company and they are trying to build up their
training so he came up with the idea of trading the monitor for training at an equal value. The
monitor is not any value to an ambulance but is valuable for training. They will never use the
old monitor again. Tom told Nick to come up with a value for the monitor then get rates for
classes or come up with a custom class for all firefighters.
MOTION: Bob motioned to allow the Fire Chief to start process by allowing him to get quotes
on cardiac machine and training and present whole package to Board. Mike seconded. Motion
passed 3-0.
The Fire Department wants Motorola radios which are state bid radios. Nick called OME out of
Ossipee and 2-Way Communications because they are both Motorola dealers. OME can’t bid
because it’s a state bid and Motorola won’t give same bid specs to both companies. His thought
was to break out the products and get all that at state bid from 2-Way and then get 3 quotes for
installation separately and just purchase the radios through 2-Way. He will come back to the
Board with quotes.
Bob brought up a donation of a safe from Cumberland Farms. It is a drop box safe they are
going to use for the cash flow at the Town Beach.
MOTION: Bob motioned to accept the donation for the safe from Cumberland Farms for the
town beach. Mike seconded. Motion passed 3-0.
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There was a brief discussion with Pat Smith and Phil MacDonald on the summary of the bids.
Lyman is clearly the low bid, they are on states qualified list and Phil has worked with them
before. J.T.I. was second then SUR and Brown Industrial. He stated they are all good outfits
and if there are any errors they can call and see if they will still do it for that number. Phil said
they will tabulate everything out on a spreadsheet. Pat Smith stated he‘s good with Lyman and
trusts Phil’s judgment and will get summary to Board this week and have their recommendation
to award. Put on agenda to award the bid at the August 5 Selectman meeting.
MOTION: Bob motioned to adjourn. Mike seconded. Meeting adjourned at 5:03 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Kimberly Ladisheff , Recording Clerk
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Chairman Tom Gray
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Bob Bridges
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Mike Beaulieu